BF2S Forums Small Nuclear Device Detonates in Las Vegas

SenorToenails wrote:

S.Lythberg wrote:

nukchebi0 wrote:

Wait, this is Vegas.

Don't we thank the terrorists?

no, they missed New Orleans

No they didn't.  Everyone knows that al Quaeda made the levies fail.  Duh!

but they didn't finish the job

ATG wrote:

1) What do you think the United States would do if a small nuclear device were detonated and there was no smoking gun leading to a Osama Bin Liden?

Id get Powell out of retirement and send him to the UN with evidence drew up by a pre school class of kids with "Iran did it" wrote with crayons on  a sheet of paper.

ATG wrote:

2) You are President of The United States, what would you do?

Pick a relatively week middle eastern country with oil and bomb the shit out of it, job done. Fly the real bombing suspects family out of the country in a private jet and then do nothing about finding the bomber. I would then get all my mates and campaign funders to rebuild said leveled middle eastern country at a honest profit while the people of said middle eastern country welcome us with open arms as liberators and champion's of justice and integrity.

ATG wrote:

Dateline March 22nd, 20??

A Hiroshima sized blast devastated a large swath of down town Las Vegas yesterday at noon.
No group has claimed responsibility.

Sporadic celebratory gun fire could be heard over Tehran and in Gaza, across Pakistan and outside the Green Zone, but all in all the world is tense and waiting Americas inevitable response. 

The governments of China, India and Syria were among the first to offer assistance.

A exodus of Biblical scope is taking place as Millions flee the Southwest.  The government has set up a series of relief stations where citizens can refill their water containers. Winds are moving the fallout East, South and North. There has been no official estimate of the casualties, but the immediate number could top five hundred thousand people with untold thousands fleeing on foot on black top and through the desert.

Authorities urged calm, but the press conference became a spectacle as the White House spokesmen was ejected from the stage when he began to scream into the microphone that ' we are all going to die. "



1) What do you think the United States would do if a small nuclear device were detonated and there was no smoking gun leading to a Osama Bin Liden?

2) You are President of The United States, what would you do?

The improbability of all this aside I would say the following:

1) The current administration would probably unilaterally declare war on Iran as they would see it as their golden opportunity to do so, in the same way that they used 9/11 hysteria to sneak the Iraq mission past the US public.

2) I would close all ports, airports and border crossings immediately for fear of another immediate attack and deploy the army across the country. First and foremost I would concentrate on relief efforts in which time some organisation may have claimed responsibility. If no culprit became obvious then I would have to simply get the CIA on the case to try and piece together who did it: a nuclear device entering the US HAS TO leave fingerprints somewhere - as seen in the Polonium 210 saga in London. There are too many potential enemies of the US to simply presume a culprit. The most obvious sources at this current moment in time would be either North Korea, Pakistan or Russia. A highly improbable candidate would be Israel, attempting to draw the US into a wider war in the middle east for their benefit (by leading them to think it was say Iran). China would have no interest in attacking the nation that buys all of their shitty plastic goods.
I would equip every single entry point to the US with radiation scanners and ensure that traceability of all internal nuclear materials was locktight. I would implement Israeli style border security along both the northern and southern frontiers - with ditches, fences and infra red detection systems all along them.
If it ultimately turned out to be some relatively minor multinational dissident group (the most likely scenario) then there would not be a lot you could do in terms of military retaliation. From nations in which members are suspected to be hiding I would then demand in private that the CIA and special forces be allowed to scour their country with carte blanche to kill all members of the organisation responsible with immunity from the law. Those who will not accede to the request will have their entire US aid package withdrawn indefinitely. Respect for and co-operation with those authorities that agree will be paramount.

Last edited by CameronPoe (2008-04-30 03:46:32)

ATG wrote:

1) What do you think the United States would do if a small nuclear device were detonated and there was no smoking gun leading to a Osama Bin Liden?

I think you would see the ACLU all the sudden vanish and almost overnight local policy would start to gravitate to see the United States gravitate to a police state. Troops stationed in Iraq would be become uncontrollably violent.

ATG wrote:

2) You are President of The United States, what would you do?

Not sure, after having bombed one my own cities to turn my country into a police state I might just use it as blank check to invade which ever I wanted.

It's an interesting premise, because seeing how it's Las Vegas the blast wouldn't really effect to much surronding it. Also since it's "Sin City" I belive that it might devide our country as alot of OUR religious nut jobs would see it as a sign from god, and probably gain momentium.. At that point we'd have much more problems in our own borders then worring about other countries.

If I were president during this time I'd lock down our borders as best as I could. Keep shipping going and start to build a new infastructor

1-Find evidence blaming Iran.

2-Invade Iran.

If that happened Jack Bauer would come and kick some mother fucking ass.

1st of all it would never happen because this is one of the great play spots for terrorists, 2nd I'm glad I moved away lol.
We would investigate it & find where it came from quite easily CSI style. We would then strike back giving a warning to all the civ's to evac...

If I was the president I would gain world support just like after 9/11, do you remember how scared the world was waiting for our response.
This time though I would keep world support until the entire world was on lock down & we found the ones responsible. I would also pressure the UK to put the holocaust teachings back in school regardless if it offended muslims or not, tolerance is something they really need to learn,[rant] just like I tolerate idiots on the road everyday, the religious freaks & the brain dead masses that have become so apathetic they bury their heads in the sand & do nothing hoping someone else will.[/rant]

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

1) Find someone to blame.

Pretty much yeah,.. they'll probably pin it on Osama even without a smoking gun.

nukchebi0 wrote:

Pubic wrote:

This means reserves, volunteers and if numbers aren't high enough, a draft.

We don't need extra people to press a button.

Starship Troopers (The Movie)

54    EXT    COMBAT KNIFE PRACTICE - DAY - ZIM


                ACE
        Sir, I don't understands who needs a
        knife in a nuke fight anyway...
        All you gotta do is push a button, sir !

    Zim yanks the knife out of the post.

                ZIM
        Put your hand on the post, private.

    Ace obeys. Zim throws, sticks his hand to the post.

                ACE
        AWK !

                ZIM
        The enemy cannot push a button if you
        disable his hand. MEDIC !

I live in Las Vegas. Downtown could use a small nuke to clean it up a bit.

Investigate who is responsible.